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Richard E. Cohen

February 5, 2010
As Democrats face growing tension between their legislative and campaign demands, Thursday's House vote to approve a $1.9 trillion increase in the federal debt ceiling underscored the dilemmas that lie ahead in this campaign year and how party leaders will seek to accommodate them. It was no surprise that the...

November 19, 2009
Rep. Phil Hare, D-Ill., endorsed the controversial proposed maximum-security prison for Illinois, with a snipe at Republican critics and an endorsement of its major job-creation benefits. "I refuse to be part of the fear factor," Hare said Wednesday. "I prefer that we talk about getting people to work. ... I...

January 5, 2009
House Democrats tentatively plan to repeal term limits for committee chairmanships when the 111th Congress convenes on Tuesday, according to senior House aides. The result would remove one of the signature reforms from the 12-year House Republican rule and likely would cause angry debate during the usually ceremonial opening day...

November 5, 2008
Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., is challenging Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., for the chairmanship of the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee. "I began making calls this morning to members and I informed Chairman Dingell that I am running for chairman," Waxman told National Journal on Wednesday. Waxman has long been...

November 5, 2008
Democrats rolled up sizable election gains in both the House and Senate on Tuesday, which should give a boost to President-elect Barack Obama. In winning new seats in both chambers, the party added to the significant increases that it scored in 2006, when it regained control of Congress. The result...

September 9, 2008
After back-to-back national conventions that captured the attention of much of the electorate, the presidential race between Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain remains a puzzle. Despite the public's deep dissatisfaction with President Bush, his party's standard-bearer remains very much in contention. When Democratic operatives look at the national...

August 28, 2008
The congressional Democratic superdelegates are mostly on board the Obama train, based on their rhetoric and activities in Denver this week. But a growing divide has become apparent with the top brass of the nominee's campaign. Many Democratic lawmakers are eager to plan for the transition to what they hope...

September 14, 2006
Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., may have a reputation as an aggressive -- and often partisan -- government watchdog. But as he discussed his potential chairmanship next year of the House Government Reform Committee, during a recent interview with National Journal, he didn't exactly sound like a pit bull. Sure, Waxman...

October 6, 2005
Rep. Peter King, a Long Island Republican descended from Irish police officers, says he knows what it's like to live in a city under attack. More than 100 of King's friends and constituents perished at the World Trade Center on 9/11, and he has written a controversial novel, Vale of...

September 1, 2005
The Senate and House will convene in extraordinary special sessions Thursday evening and Friday afternoon to approve emergency funding to Gulf Coast states that have been ravaged by Hurricane Katrina. The Senate plans to approve the spending in a session tentatively set for 10 p.m. this evening, according to a...

Database-level encryption had its origins in the 1990s and early 2000s in response to very basic risks which largely revolved around the theft of servers, backup tapes and other physical-layer assets. As noted in Verizon’s 2014, Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR)1, threats today are far more advanced and dangerous.

In order to better understand the current state of external and internal-facing agency workplace applications, Government Business Council (GBC) and Riverbed undertook an in-depth research study of federal employees. Overall, survey findings indicate that federal IT applications still face a gamut of challenges with regard to quality, reliability, and performance management.

PIV- I And Multifactor Authentication: The Best Defense for Federal Government Contractors

This white paper explores NIST SP 800-171 and why compliance is critical to federal government contractors, especially those that work with the Department of Defense, as well as how leveraging PIV-I credentialing with multifactor authentication can be used as a defense against cyberattacks

This research study aims to understand how state and local leaders regard their agency’s innovation efforts and what they are doing to overcome the challenges they face in successfully implementing these efforts.

The U.S. healthcare industry is rapidly moving away from traditional fee-for-service models and towards value-based purchasing that reimburses physicians for quality of care in place of frequency of care.